crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. SPEC Campaign [link].
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. They invest alongside financial VCs.
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Version One Ventures
JULY 19, 2018
In addition, there are opportunities to build a marketplace around communities that are passionate about a specific product category, i.e. GOAT for sneakers. At Version One, we are more inclined to invest in businesses where the services are as commoditized as products so there isn’t supplier preference nor disintermediation.
A Crowded Space
APRIL 10, 2013
They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. They won’t open your emails, they won’t participate in your community forums, they won’t give you product feedback, and they won’t be telling all their friends about the platform.
Venture Chronicles
APRIL 25, 2011
Community Platforms. The evolution of business is all about the reduction of latency and disintermediation through technology, as in the elimination of human action. We have reached a point of disintermediation where we no longer even want to go to them, we expect that a tweet will be responded to substantively in a matter of minutes.
Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2016
Q2 empowers community-focused banks and credit unions with digital banking solutions that help them "scale smart and grow beyond" with retail and commercial account holders. What does financial disintermediation really mean? Since being founded in 1998 LendingTree has facilitated more than 32 million loan requests.
Growthink Blog
APRIL 2, 2012
Add to this mix banking industry consolidation causing smaller capital investments to just “not be worth the trouble” for way too big a swath of the industry and the sad reality is that banks are really no longer meaningful funding players in the small business communities in which they allegedly live.
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